DETROIT — After practice Monday, former Wings TV play-by-play man Dave Strader reported that a few players, one of which was Todd Bertuzzi, wouldn’t allow the Predators to use the Ping-Pong table that sits in the hallway between the two locker rooms.

“I wasn’t even aware of that, but I guess it shows that it’s our ping-pong table,” Nicklas Lidstrom laughed.

On Tuesday, how the incident occurred was cleared up.

“It was the security guard,” said Nashville defenseman Roman Josi, who was playing a game with Brandon Yip at the time. “They didn’t really take it away, they just said we’re not allowed to play. I like to play, me and Brandon always play in Nashville.”

In the past the Wings used to kick a soccer ball around the hallway to loosen up and unwind.

“If they want a ping pong table in Nashville, I’m more than willing to give them one,” Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. “It’s their toys. We have our toys, all those things, a Ping-Pong table, our balls. We’re OK. We’ve got a soccer ball. We have our things that we do. There’s nothing really to it. That’s their decision, it’s their toy.”

There was also a report that Bertuzzi wheeled the table away.

“It’s just a rumor,” Yip said. “We just went out there to play, the security guard said we’re not to play, so we were a little disappointed, but we went back and did our normal routine.

“I got a little more TV time,” Yip joked. “It was a little funny, it’s nothing to look too far into, I don’t think. We should probably challenge them to doubles.”